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Lightning Dev Kit

The Lightning Dev Kit project is building tools and libraries that make it easy to integrate Lightning features in Bitcoin wallets

Hey there 👋

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Lightning Development Kit (LDK) is a complete Lightning implementation packaged as an SDK

LDK is based on Rust-Lightning, a full-featured but also incredibly flexible lightning implementation, allowing you to decide how to use it.

Learn how to start adding Lightning to your apps at lightningdevkit.org

🔨 Contributing to the ecosystem

Our team maintains Rust-Lightning, which we rely on to build and run LDK, while also maintaining a number of other open source projects like:

😃 Join our community

Open source is fundamental to this project and we would love to connect with you.

Check out the LDK roadmap here

Most of our communication is happening in the LDK Discord server, come say hi!

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  1. rust-lightning Public

    A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. It's rust-lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!

    Rust 1.2k 384

  2. ldk-sample Public

    Sample node implementation using LDK

    Rust 176 95

  3. ldk-garbagecollected Public

    LDK Bindings for Garbage-Collected Languages

    TypeScript 55 27

  4. ldk-c-bindings Public

    Main LDK C Bindings on which other bindings are built

    Rust 14 14

  5. ldk-swift Public

    Swift 49 12

  6. lightningdevkit.org Public

    Lightning Development Kit Documentation

    59 40

Repositories

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  • ldk-server Public
    Rust 11 8 10 1 Updated Feb 28, 2025
  • rust-lightning Public

    A highly modular Bitcoin Lightning library written in Rust. It's rust-lightning, not Rusty's Lightning!

    Rust 1,216 384 327 (20 issues need help) 72 Updated Feb 28, 2025
  • ldk-swift Public
    Swift 49 12 9 3 Updated Feb 27, 2025
  • ldk-sample Public

    Sample node implementation using LDK

    Rust 176 Apache-2.0 95 3 0 Updated Feb 26, 2025
  • ldk-node Public

    A ready-to-go node implementation built using LDK.

    Rust 166 94 53 12 Updated Feb 22, 2025
  • vss-server Public

    Versioned Storage Service

    Rust 32 MIT 13 4 1 Updated Feb 11, 2025
  • lightningdevkit.org Public

    Lightning Development Kit Documentation

    59 MIT 40 41 (1 issue needs help) 3 Updated Feb 10, 2025
  • ldk-review-club Public

    LDK Review Club Website

    SCSS 7 6 0 0 Updated Feb 7, 2025
  • Rust 25 24 2 (1 issue needs help) 3 Updated Jan 31, 2025
  • ldk-garbagecollected Public

    LDK Bindings for Garbage-Collected Languages

    TypeScript 55 27 18 0 Updated Jan 18, 2025